[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#659124: Bug#659124: notify-osd: Does not provide Notification-daemon

[Daniel Franganillo]

Hi,
thanks for the fast response.
I'm having problems with a few packages which depend on a notification-daemon.
The applications are deluge and guake.
My setup is LXDE so I dont have a proper "notification-daemon" appart
from notify-osd and this update is breaking those apps.
Should I report a bug, for wrong depends, on this applications?
Thanks.

2012/2/8 Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Franganillo
> <dfranganillo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> with the upgrade to 0.9.32 notify-osd does not provide
>> notification-daemon anymore, Shouldn't it have to provide that?
>
> The conversation in bug #640120 led me to think that it shouldn't
> provide notification-daemon. It makes sense to me that that individual
> applications should not directly depend on notification-daemon, and
> that it should be up to the desktop environment to depend on its
> notification system of choice. As it is now, providing
> notification-daemon in notify-osd wouldn't stop it from being
> installed on a system that also has GNOME due to the way they have
> versionized their depends. So I don't see much gain in providing it.
> As things are now, notify-osd isn't really a drop in replacement for
> notification-daemon.
>
> All that said, if anyone is having real world issues due to this, I
> could re-add it. Do you have an actual use case where not providing
> notification-daemon is causing you a problem?
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
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